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Doing development differently: what should change?

May 2015

Participants at the 'Doing development differently: Philippines workshop' discuss the future of doing development differently - and what needs to change.

Features interviews with Zack Brisson (Reboot), Tom Parks (DFAT), Calixto Chikiamco (Foundation for Economic Freedom), Taylor Brown (theIDLgroup / GRM International) and Helen Derbyshire (SAVI Nigeria), discussing what comes next for 'doing development differently,' including understanding how the concept can be introduced into large development organisations; broadening out to reach more people, and documenting stories from new sectors and contexts beyond those already collected; improving the way we evaluate attempts to do development differently, and highlighting the importance of organisational cultures - as well as staff - for making this way of working possible.

On current trends, it will take decades or longer to bring basic services to the world’s most disadvantaged people. Meeting this challenge means recognising the political conditions that enable or obstruct development progress - a radical departure from the approach of the Millennium Development Goals.

At the ODI / Harvard Building State Capability programme October 2014 event ’Doing development differently’, we spoke to Joel Hellman (World Bank), Tom Murphy (Humanosphere). Andy Ratcliffe (Africa Governance Initiative), Jaime Faustino (The Asia Foundation), Duncan Green (Oxfam) and Kathy Bain (World Bank) about how we can rise to the challenges posed by doing development differently.
For more information and resources about doing development differently, visit odi.org/doing-development-differently

At the ODI / Harvard Building State Capability October 2014 event 'Doing development differently', we spoke to Helen Derbyshire (SAVI Nigeria), Andy Ratcliffe (Africa Governance Initiative), Natalia Adler (UNICEF), Duncan Green (Oxfam) and Jaime Faustino (The Asia Foundation) about what doing development looks like in practice.Find more information and resources on doing development differently and sign the manifesto (pdf).